Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tiamat!jim From: jim@tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Convincing Smail to use FQDNs Message-ID: <198@tiamat.fsc.com> Date: 21 Aug 90 14:23:01 GMT References: <3890@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US> Organization: Ahlstrom Filtration - Chattanooga,TN Lines: 25 In article <3890@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US>, pja@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US (Pete Alleman) writes: > In article <5IA5TY9@ggpc2.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > >But the point in question is that having an FQDN doesn't mean you're on the > >internet. Simple point. Why do people keep forgetting it? > > Maybe I missed something. Under what circumstances would a site with > a FQDN ending with an Internet Top Level Domain not be accessible from > the Internet? Do many sites use names that are indistinguishable from > proper Internet names and have no Internet Name Server records? Just so Peter da Silva doesn't feel alone in this discussion, I'll throw my two cents in: There is a BIG difference between being "accessible" from the Internet and being "on" the Internet. Thanks to many different gateways, user of Compuserve, MCI, and even (I think) ATT Mail are "accessible" from the Internet, but that doesn't mean they are "on" the Internet. My systems are all under the domain fsc.com and tiamat.fsc.com is a FQDN with respect to mail only, since uunet.uu.net will answer queries with an MX record. But something like "ftp tiamat.fsc.com" will fail miserably, since I am not on the Internet. ------------- James B. O'Connor jim@tiamat.fsc.com Ahlstrom Filtration, Inc. 615/821-4022 x. 651